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"After Ecstasy, the Laundry"

This mix was recorded using digital and vinyl at home in Echo Park, Los Angeles during the height of a lockdown in 2021. It’s very special to me because I challenged myself to explore a downtempo aesthetic in my selections while still applying my usual affinity for solid foundational grooves fused with deep emotional textures. The title of the mix is ‘After Ecstasy, The Laundry’ – originally the title of a book by Western buddhist philosopher Jack Kornfield, the phrase alludes to that feeling after a particularly uplifting and transcendent experience when you are forced to face that all good things must end. With this mix I hoped to encapsulate that feeling but with a light, uplifting, and more positive essence, reflecting my own drive not to focus on the fact that these ecstatic moments have ended, but allowing them to enrich your life and cultivate the future.

Image credit: Center of the Earth by Fay Sciarra, acrylic on canvas

VPN Radio: Surrealchemistry 2/15/22 w/ SAMWISE

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Samwise is an LA-based selector / DJ and eternal raver. Known as A&R for Diplo and the force behind his multifaceted house-focused imprint Higher Ground, he is also co-founder and resident at Fast At Work, a forward thinking party series that champions fast – but not necessarily hard – electronic music. While his sets are diverse and unapologetically raw, his sound cohesively elevates strong foundational grooves with deep emotional textures.

Acid Camp Vol. 139 — Samwise

Sam is resident and runs with the awesome Fast at Work party in LA and is known for playing a wide range of genres and tempo's, as we hear in the 10th space•cast. Sam is one of those DJ's who's tunes and sets reflect their personality - pure vibes from start to finish. Enjoy! 

Check more of Sam out here:
https://soundcloud.com/dj_samwise
https://www.instagram.com/salmon247/
https://www.instagram.com/fastatwork/

space•cast 10 - Samwise

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Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hi! My name is Sam aka Samwise. I’m a selector/DJ, A&R, curator, promoter, and eternal raver. My pronouns are He/Him. I’m currently based in Los Angeles, but spend a considerable amount of time in London as well.

Describe your DJ set up in full detail?

My home setup consists of 2x Technics 1200 MKII turntables (internally grounded) as I like to have the freedom to play both vinyl and digital records, an Allen & Heath XONE 92 mixer (sorry to my V10 bbs but team XONE 100p), and 2x Pioneer XDJ-700 cdjs (I prefer having older CDJs for my home setup because they do nothing for you (technically speaking) and force you to play by ear. Ideal for practicing + warm ups.

3 adjectives that start with the same letter to describe your vibe?

Serendipitous
Sanguine
Sassy

Favorite movie and why? 

Darron Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream. I love bold, esoteric, analytical films with a dark and preferably psychological tinge. Aronofsky is the best of the best at this in my view, and this film remains his most poignant work. 


Listen to the moment at 45 min mark in your PI mix… describe how it makes you feel? 

This moment makes me feel solid, rooted, and hopeful. For me, recording mixes is a cathartic and therapeutic process that largely reflects an experience that I’ve gone through. This particular mix is really important to me on a personal level because I recorded it shortly after I uncovered a deeply rooted childhood trauma. The progression of the mix echoes the process of integrating this trauma into my life – in other words, realizing the way this has informed my way of living/behaving and how to move forward with the knowledge that it happened. The 45 min mark is the point at which I am able to shift away from being introspective and somber, and towards a newfound ability to be hopeful and rooted again.

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community? 

I’d love to see more musical diversity and openness from DJs, promoters, and attendees alike. I think we made a lot of progress breaking down musical boundaries post-Covid, but we still have a long way towards destroying musical pretentiousness. Dance music is about connection and togetherness in all forms, period!

Samwise - -247˚

There is something about mixing records slightly imperfectly that has always totally inspired and mystified me. Maybe it’s because of the simple fact that sonic dissonance sounds a bit weird and makes us pay attention. But I’ve always felt like there’s a deeper and more fundamental reason that this tension between sounds / tracks / records is so attractive - it’s almost like it reflects the complicated nature of human beings, and the way we operate within the world, constantly fighting and bickering and negotiating things among us, but occasionally finding those sweet spots of harmonious union and togetherness.....

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Samwise - Live at Basement Nov 18 2023

Undeniably demanding, occasionally straining, but often rewarding and invariably reassuring. In nuce, this is the existential rollercoaster rode by anyone willing to partake in this world of merry music we all strive to keep in motion and feed with emotion for the sole purpose of creating some magic moments that, if not wholly life changing, can be vastly mind altering and deeply heartwarming. However, as far as descriptions go and as honest and earnest as these are, descriptions rarely do justice to the most precious aspects of what is involved here. And this engulfs quite a lot of efforts carried out through manifold fronts that happen to find an outlet in this special space that serves as much more than a place for the meeting of forces, it is a catalyst for possibilities, allowing for the collision of intentions and the fusion of visions. Each episode aims at presenting the results of these encounters, all of them widely varied in terms of the rhythms they include and wildly vivid in the scenes they introduce. So, when we have a guest whose artistic presence is as multifarious as Samwise's, the potential for greatness is enhanced. As a gifted selector, he can be heard sharing his musical knowledge and taste at some of the finest festive initiatives around the globe, as well as helming his own Fast At Work events. His contribution to the series is a mind-opening and world-revealing trip across eclectic and ecstatic soundscapes.

Gop Tun 130 - Samwise

accelerate your cosmic consciousness with my latest capsule of intergalactic and ginger-infused beats

shefton - cosmic reflection - june 2016

again and again he stumbles; it is the only true way to move forward

shefton - transitional odyssey - august 2016

shefton - solar impulse - december 2016

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